2008-07-07: 2.4.2

Probably the biggest bugfix release ever. The "what s new", prepared by Gruntster :

* Improved input and output of audio streams in MKV files

* Support for MJPEG-A in MOV/MP4 files

* Fixed saving header information of AVI files with PCM/LPCM audio

* Fixed opening FLV files that don't contain audio

* Fixed corruption when decoding MP4 files

* Fixed crashing when using MPEG-4 ASP (lavc) and two pass average bitrate mode

* Flush the x264 encoder upon completion so the last few frames aren't dropped

* Fixed incorrect colour conversion of 24/32 bit BMP and DIB files

* Re-enabled AMR-NB decoder (regression introduced in 2.4.0)

* Support for additional VP6 fourCCs

* Xvid custom matrices are now activated correctly

* Fixed caching issue with Qt4 interface which would corrupt translated strings

* Fixed zooming when using SDL (regression introduced in 2.4.1)

* Windows are now centred correctly on multi-monitor setups

* Use alternate button ordering for GTK+ interface when GNOME HIG isn't appropriate, e.g. MS Windows and KDE

* Various additions to the Qt4 interface including a new calculator tool, drag and drop support, improved joblist support and an about window

* SRT subtitle support for Arabic, Baltic, Greek, Hebrew and Turkish

* Fixed iPod profile where audio encoding options weren't always set correctly

* Fixed Film to PAL audio filter so frames are removed and added correctly

* Batch importing of image files is no longer restricted by the file handle limit set by the C runtime

* New video filter for outputting the frame number

* PulseAudio support (Linux only)

* GCC 4.3 support

* Updated the following translations: Czech, French, German, Greek, Italian, Spanish

* Fixed drag and drop support on MS Windows

* Improved Unicode support for filenames on MS Windows

* Prevent source files from being overwritten accidentally by the user on MS Windows

* MS Windows logging and settings are now stored under the Application Data folder instead of the User Profile folder

* Native file dialogs are now used for the Qt4 interface on Mac

* Various minor fixes and enhancements

2008-02-17: 2.4.1, aka r3791

2.4.1 is a bugfix release

* Support for x264’s new Hadamard Exhaustive Search method of motion estimation

* Decoder for Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile (WVC1)

* Re-enabled H.263 decoder (it was missing from the 2.4 release)

* Fixed loss of audio when saving large OpenDML AVI files

* Fixed various colour conversion issues with RGB codecs including BMP, Huffyuv, JPEG and PNG

* Updates to the following translations: Catalan, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish

* Win32 logging is now stored in an Avidemux folder under the user's profile. This allows Avidemux to operate under a non-administrator account.

* Win32 CLI version nows outputs to console

* New Quartz version for Mac

* Better SDL support for Mac Quartz and Qt4 versions (SDL windows are now embedded and acceleration is enabled for Qt4)

* Various video decoding fixes for PowerPC-based Macs

* Fixed freezing when opening files on Mac

* Fix corruption when encoding from a mp4/mov/3gp file.

Most of the work is once again from Gruntster.

2007-12-23: 2.4 Final, aka r3731

2.4 Final is ready for Christmas. Small changelog compared to preview 3 :

* MKV and FLV improvements.

* Mostly fixed decoding corruptions.

* Improved OsX versions, including PPC.

A short changelog compared to 2.3 :

* Input and output support for MKV and FLV containers

* Rewritten MP4/MOV/3GP reader

* Support for Nellymoser codec

* New DV video output support

* New MPEG-TS support including H.264 Elementary Stream

* OCR support for MPEG-TS subtitles

* New video bitstream unpacker (improved compatibility)

* Capability to pack video bitstreams

* New Yadif filter (ported from Avisynth)

* Video filters can be loaded as external plug-ins (sample plug-in included)

* Three interfaces now offered: command line, GTK+ and Qt4 (Qt4 is still incomplete)

* Several key dialogs have been revamped (GTK+ user interface only)

* Preview system refactored

* Priority control added for encoding and video playback (Win32 only)

* New Jog Shuttle control (GTK+ user interface only)

* Support for Jog Shuttle hardware (Linux & GTK+ only)

* New iPod and PlayStation Portable profiles

* New Glyph Editor

* Improved Bitrate Histogram

* JACK support (Linux only)

* DirectX support (Win32 only)

* New Avisynth Proxy GUI (Win32 only)

* Improved crash recovery - session settings are saved and reloaded upon application start

* Numerous bugs fixed

A bit deal of this version has been done by Gruntster and surfer.

Merry Christmas!

2007-11-11: 2.4 Preview 3.1, aka r3688 try 2

There was two small problems on the win32 and macOsX package. AAC support was missing on the win32 ones, and some compatibility issue with MacOsX ones.

They have been upgraded to 3.1, check the download page (the internal version is still the same!). No change for the source tarball.

2007-11-10: 2.4 Preview 3, aka r3688, aka RC1

Time for another preview

As usual lately, mostly Gruntster work. Surfer & Gruntster did a great job on MacOsX (Intel only) and we have both Gtk and Qt4 MacIntel versions available for download.

Quick summary/changelog :

* Support for FLV & MKV output (beta quality)

* Simple profile for Ipod (Mpeg4 SP, not H264)

* Subtitle OCR for mpeg TS

* Simple glyph editor

* Improved FLV read support

* JACK audio device support (Linux)

* Support for external Jog Shuttle (Linux/gtk), ported from Kino by Chris Mac Gregor.

* Improved QT4 version, including i18n.

2007-07-02: 2.4 Preview 2, aka r3322

Time for another preview :)

First, we have some new people onboard.

Translators : Tetsuro for japanese, Joo M for german, Joan F for catalan, Hulusi A and Necmettin B for turkish, Popac for serbian (sorry if i forgot someone).

Lord MuldeR did a nice GUI for avs proxy (tool to read avs file on windows, or through wine one linux).

And last but not least, Guntster.

He helped a LOT for this release, especially concerning the win32 build which works much better than previously.

Thanks Gruntster !.

Now a summary of the changes :

* Support for mkv and flv files. For MKV you should rebuild an index systematically.

* Support for m2ts files

* The QT4 version is more adanced, not yet complete but usable.

* Revamped most of the dialogs.

* Two build systems available: automake/autoconf and cmake based.

* Process priority control (win32)

* New filter : yadif ported from avisynth

* MP4/MOV/3GP reader redone from scratch

* Better bitstream packer/unpacker

* Better TS support, including h264 (incomplete)

* If avidemux crashes, it will try to save the current state and offer to reload it at next start.

* Tons of bugfixes

* Tons of new bugs

2007-04-03: Packages update

Packages for Ubuntu (all versions, i386 & AMD64) are available, thanks to http://www.getdeb.net.

kuisathaverat has also made its first dmg for macintel.

All is available on the download page.

Thanks a bunch to them :).

2007-03-17: Avidemux 2.4 preview 1

Time has passed and it is time for a first snapshot of avidemux 2.4.

What has changed :

* 3 binaries built : command line, gtk, QT4 (port incomplete but workish)

* Profiles for PSP are now working : xvid4/h264, standard resolution or full screen

* Video filters can be loaded as external plugins (sample provided)

* Preview system redone

* Improved bitrate histogram

* Experimental support for H264 elementary stream

* DV video output

* Brand new packed bitstream unpacker 100% ok now,even with smart chip like sigma design ones

* Ability to pack bitstream

2007-02-04: End of hosting issue, hopefully.

I've spent some money and upgraded the host capabilities. The wiki and the forum are both back online.

2007-01-27: Hosting issue

I'm having some SQL overload issue, so both the forum and the wiki are offline for the moment, i'm trying to get enough SQL bandwidth to do a backup but it does not seem to be that easy.